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A group of teachers opposed to educational reforms clashed with police and engaged in acts of vandalism at the seat of Congress in Mexico City, leaving about a dozen educators and officers injured, officials said Tuesday.

The president of the Venezuelan Medical Association asked the Venezuelan government Tuesday to declare a health emergency and take steps to address serious problems with the Andean nation’s healthcare system.

“We demand…a healthcare emergency be declared here in Venezuela,” Dr. Douglas Leon said during a press conference in Caracas.

During the winter months, Lima is often plagued by complete darkness due to the dark gray clouds and fog that cover the city.

Unfortunately, this year has brought particularly bad weather to the Peruvian capital.

Having been the dampest winter in 30 years, some Limeños may have suffered from seasonal depression.

The source of the darkness appears to by a Humboldt current that comes from Antarctica which collides with the warmer tropical atmosphere. Thus creating the dark mists called “garua” in Chile and Peru.

By now every baseball fan has seen Sunday night’s beaning of controversial Yankees’ hitter Alex Rodriguez. Now, the punishment for Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster has been issued.

During the second inning of Sunday’s game at Fenway Park, the Yankees’ third baseman was hit by Dempster’s pitch and Yankee’s coach Joe Girardi was so upset he erupted at Brian O’Nora, the home-plate umpire. Though looking to have Dempster ejected from the game, it was Girardi who was sent off.

The US is not No. 1 anymore. Mexico, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, has surpassed the United States as the fattest nation in the world.

An estimated 70 percent of the population is overweight, and about one-third of Mexicans are obese. Just one fat-related disease, diabetes, accounts for nearly 70,000 Mexican deaths per year.

“But this doesn’t mean our health to the north has gotten better – it just means others have gotten worse, and the dubious distinction of who is the world’s most obese nation is debatable,” says Dr. James L. Hardeman, who has seen firsthand the consequences of unhealthy habits during his 30 years as a practicing physician.

“For one, we’ve been fatter longer than Mexico has and yet we still haven’t sufficiently dealt with our national epidemic of fat-based disease. Our overweight and obese percentages are neck and neck with Mexico’s, and some of this is due to misinformation.”

Dr. Hardeman, author of “Appears Younger than Stated Age,” (www.jameslhardeman.com), a pragmatic guide to looking younger, debunks some of the myths that aren’t helping dieters:

• Myth: Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week is sufficient. Moderate exercise may work for the 25-year-old with a reasonably healthy diet. When we are young, our basal metabolic rate (BMR) rages like a furnace. Unfortunately, our BMR decreases 2 to 3 percent each decade after age 25. That means we have to make up for that decrease with either better eating habits, more exercise, or both – if we want to maintain a healthy weight. For those who are older, overweight or obese, a stronger commitment is necessary, including an hour’s worth of exercise at least five times a week.

• Myth: Gaining weight with age is healthy because it’s natural. Metabolism slows with age, causing many to put on the pounds. However, maintaining your Ideal Body Weight (IBW), which factors in height, gender and frame size, will keep you feeling and looking younger if you do not slowly gain weight over time. Also, casually accepting some weight gain over time can lead to massive weight gain considering our largely sedentary lifestyles and easy availability of quick, fatty meals.

• Myth: You should drink at least eight glasses of water per day. Humans posses a sensitive thirst center in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, which responds to dehydration and tells us to drink water. The amount of water needed for each person varies; so we don’t need to target a set amount because our thirst will tell us. However, drinking plenty of water may decrease appetite, and water should always be chosen over sugary beverages for satiating thirst.

• Myth: Diet books keep you slim. “Going on a diet” is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Diets typically entail temporarily altering eating patterns, losing a bit of weight, and then going back to old habits. This has created an entire genre of literature, as well as videos, gear and meal plans that have become a multibillion-dollar industry. Really, it all boils down to the I&O (Intake and Output) principle. People who stick to Atkins, South Beach and the Sugar Busters diets lose weight because they limit the intake of calories.

• Myth: Taking vitamin supplements every day makes you healthy. Dietary supplement sales represent a $20 billion a year business, yet the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act allows for significantly more lenient rules for supplements than medications from pharmaceutical companies, which are carefully scrutinized by the FDA. Manufacturers are not required to substantiate the supposed benefits of their products. A balanced diet generally provides all required vitamins and minerals needed, with the possible exceptions vitamin B12 for those who eat no animal products, folic acid for women of childbearing age, and, if blood tests indicate deficiency, vitamin B12 and vitamin D in the elderly.

Following the arrest of Mario Ramirez Trevino “El Pelon or X-20”, speculation about who will take his place and thus the maximum control of the Gulf Cartel is rampant.

So one of the hottest names, which are being battered about, is “The Pestle”, identified as Homero Cardenas Guillen, belonging to the family of the Cádernas Guillen, former leader of the Gulf Cartel, who is a fugitive and has been sought for years by authorities for drug cartel crime offenses.

The Gulf Cartel is a major drug cartel in Mexico and perhaps the oldest criminal organization in the country. Their base of operations is located in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

The cartel has a significant presence in 3 states around Mexico, with areas of operation in Matamoros, Reynosa, Miguel Aleman, Tampico and Ciudad Victoria in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. Operations have also been detected in the states of Nuevo Leon and Veracruz.

Their network has led to an international reach for Gulf cartel as they have connections in Europe, Africa, Central America, South America, and the United States. In addition to drug trafficking, the Gulf cartel also extort, kidnap, murder amongst other crimes. The organization is known for intimidating the people and is “particularly violent.

The conservative American Action Network issued a communique saying that the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate in June would create and average of 14,000 new jobs in each of the 435 U.S. congressional districts.

The note has been sent to the offices of lawmakers in an attempt by the organization to drum up support when members of the House of Representatives return in September and resume the reform debate.

An Illinois man has been charged with multiple felonies after killing one man and injuring two others over beer money.

According to reports, Gumaro Torres, 31, was drinking with co-workers in a Chicago yard over the weekend when the group pooled their money to buy more alcohol. When the person who bought it returned, however, Torres became angry he did not receive any change.

The European Commission said Tuesday that it is acting at Spain’s request to investigate the use of concrete blocks to create an artificial reef off Gibraltar, a British crown colony at the tip of the Iberian peninsula.

“As soon as we receive a formal complaint from a member state, we are obliged to launch a complaint procedure, which could in turn lead to an infringement procedure,” EC spokesman Olivier Bailly said in Brussels.

Villa Talea de Castro, a town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, is creating its own cellular telephone network due to lack of interest on the part of wireless companies in serving the mountain community of 2,500 people.

“The neighboring communities are interested in the project so the antennas can be linked in an autonomous community network,” Villa Talea de Castro secretary Alejandro Lopez Canseco said in a telephone interview with Efe.